FIRST LOOK: Cinderella's New Designer Slippers

IF THERE'S one girl who deserves a designer shoe, it surely is Cinderella (considering her desperate home life, those horrible step-sisters, and an otherwise drab wardrobe offering) and fortunately it's not just her fairy godmother who has come to her fashion rescue. In honour of the release of the new live-action Cinderella film - in cinemas this March - some of the world's most famous shoe designers are coming to her aid, creating a glass slipper fit for a fairy-tale princess.

From Perspex to Swarovski-adorned, the fictional shoe has been reimagined in a range of ways by designers including Nicholas Kirkwood, Jimmy Choo, Charlotte Olympia, Salvatore Ferragamo, Jerome Rousseau, Stuart Weitzman, Paul Andrew, Alexandre Birman, and Rene Caovilla. They will then be available to order from key stores across the world - Harrods, Saks Fifth Avenue in New York and Beverly Hills, Galeries Lafayette in Paris, Excelsior Milano, Tsum in Moscow, Isetan in Tokyo, Level Shoe District in Dubai will all offer the "glass" slippers - and are set to be unveiled just before Valentine's Day.